Parker Cemetery, also known as J.S. Parker Cemetery, is a historic cemetery in
Parker, Colorado
Parker is a home rule municipality in Douglas County, Colorado, United States. As a self-declared "town" under the home rule statutes, Parker is the second most populous town in the county; Castle Rock is the most populous (the community of Hi ...
.
James S. Parker
James Southworth Parker (June 3, 1867 – December 19, 1933) was a United States Representative from New York.
Life
Born in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, he attended the public schools and was graduated from Cornell Univ ...
donated three acres for Parker Cemetery around 1884, at which time it held the graves of his two sons. The following year, four early settlers who were buried on a hill just east of the present-day intersection of Parker Road (
Highway 83) and
E-470
E-470 is a controlled-access toll road that traverses the eastern portion of the Denver metropolitan area in the US state of Colorado. It is the eastern half of the 470 beltway that serves Meridian, Parker, Aurora, Denver International Airpor ...
were reinterred at Parker Cemetery. The earliest known grave is for Jonathan Tallman who was killed by Native Americans in 1870.
Parker (died 1910) and his wife Mattie (died 1887) are also buried there. In 1911, the title to the cemetery was transferred to J.S. Parker Cemetery Association.
Notable people buried at the cemetery
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Linda Lovelace
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John and Elizabeth Tallman, Colorado Pioneers
References
Further reading
* {{cite book, author=Garry O'Hara, title=J.S. Parker Cemetery, Parker, Colorado: Inventory of Grave Marker Inscriptions, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BaZyGwAACAAJ, year=2003, publisher=G. O'Hara
Parker, Colorado
1884 establishments in Colorado
Cemeteries in Colorado
Buildings and structures in Douglas County, Colorado
Cemeteries established in the 1880s